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by necubi 16y ago
I've tried developing Ruby on Ubuntu using the ruby packages, and it's been a huge pain every time. They've also handled ruby1.9 in a maddening way--with separate 1.9 binaries for everything. And rubygems is very broken (though it's probabl
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by necubi 16y ago
This is the broken window fallacy [1]. If the company didn't have to pay developers to maintain bad code, they could invest that money in something more economically useful, like new products. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window
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by necubi 16y ago
This article reads like "yeah Erlang has a lot of cool features, but it's really scary to an OO programmer like me." > I can’t imagine how you can organize large code-bases in Erlang or even work as team, and this doesn’t feel right to
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by necubi 16y ago
It's a neat idea, but wouldn't work for any image format that's actually used. The code targets PPM, which is an ASCII-based image format. In a binary format like JPG or PNG, different values of zero would be indistinguishable.
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by necubi 16y ago
Ruby on Rails is generating the flat files, while apache et al. are serving them.
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by necubi 16y ago
My class used Sipser, and it's generally clear and understandable.
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by necubi 16y ago
Actually, this is one of my favorite features of Dropbox. It may occasionally make me do some additional work to merge files, but it's worth it for the peace of mind: I know that Dropbox will never delete anything I don't want it to or eras
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by necubi 16y ago
Frankly, trying to do anything even slightly off the beaten path with capistrano leads to madness in my experience. If this is simpler to extend past just deploying rails apps I can definitely see a place for it in my workflow.
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by necubi 16y ago
His logic is sound, but you're misreading him: he's saying that (quantity of app titles all that matters) => (we're all using windows). We're not all using windows, so by contradiction quantity of apps is not all that matters. He's not
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by necubi 16y ago
Where is the red circle drawn? How large is it? What shade of red? How are those arbitrary values chosen, and how do I choose others? The inherent problem with NLP is that human languages are imprecise and ambiguous. For an example of the p
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by necubi 16y ago
The answer (in general, though not in this particular case because the product is free) is price discrimination[0]. The basic idea is that by segmenting their customers roughly by ability to pay (students and seniors will on average pay l
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by necubi 16y ago
Incidentally, facebook has SSL as well: https://facebook.com . Unfortunately, it's not the default and there doesn't appear to be any way to force it.
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by necubi 16y ago
Trying the demos on both a Galaxy S and an iPad, I'm struck by how slow everything feels. Buttons don't react when you press them, but a second later, which isn't acceptable when you're competing with native applications. However, it looks
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by necubi 16y ago
That's not how it works generally (that only works at low traffic intersections). More typically, the walk button registers that there is a pedestrian wishing to cross, without which the system skips over the pedestrian phase of the traffic
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by necubi 16y ago
How I've done it is something like this: (1) Client sends auth info to backend server (2) Server sets auth cookie on client (3) Every request goes through a proxy written in Ruby/EventMachine which either just passes through the request to
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by necubi 16y ago
Ruby ORMs like DataMapper and ActiveRecord are datastore-independent and provide similar functionality. I'm sure similar ORMs exist for other languages.
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by necubi 16y ago
For dissenting opinions, check out Ars Technica's [1] and Engadget's [2] reviews. Both are less enthusiastic, with Ars complaining that the lack of buttons (compared to the Wiimote or Sony's Move) greatly limits gameplay potential. [1] htt
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by necubi 16y ago
People will still need routers to serve as wireless access points, since the vast majority of web connected devices are connected via WiFi.
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by necubi 16y ago
The same code works in ruby, though without the assertion behavior: > a = [0] > b, = a > b == 0 => true
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by necubi 16y ago
As someone who learned sproutcore last fall, I found the documentation really lacking, and it hasn't gotten much better since then. Mostly I learned by reading the source code, which fortunately is very clear, but that's too much effort for
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by necubi 16y ago
Except that this isn't a rich web application--this is a java applet.
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by necubi 16y ago
OS X disk images (DMGs) can be created with a background image. Most developers take advantage of this fact to make it really, really obvious what you're supposed to do. For example, here is what DoubleTwist's DMG looks like: http://cl.ly/
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by necubi 16y ago
Apple threw their lot in with Sproutcore, the other cocoa-inspired (though not Obj-C inspired) thick client framework by hiring the lead developer (who's now departed) and implementing MobileMe with it.
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by necubi 16y ago
Awesome! The wiki was the weakest part of the github ecosystem, and it's wonderful to see it get some much-needed love. Besides being git-backed (and therefore portable), the new wikis also finally have markdown support. The pace of releasi
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by necubi 16y ago
If you're on a mac and use Safari, QuickCursor ( http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor ) is a nice free input manager that solves this problem. It lets you use a real text editor (Textmate, BBEdit, Smutron amongst others) in pl
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by necubi 16y ago
That's exactly right. The property tax rate (the percentage of the value of your home that you must pay every year) cannot be reduced, because many property owners are paying that percentage on the values of their homes twenty years ago or
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by necubi 16y ago
Property taxes are actually at the root of much of the problem, but not because they're too high. Thanks to Prop 13, which prevented property taxes from increasing except when a property is sold, they're very unevenly distributed. In essenc
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by necubi 16y ago
From a cursory reading, this isn't particularly new, even on the web. Essentially what he's done is implement bindings/key value observing, but with a new syntax instead of the one we already know (i.e., javascript). On the desktop Cocoa ha
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by necubi 16y ago
Yes it is, but the spec covers only a subset of what people are referring to when they say "HTML5." The official spec [1] outlines what is actually part of HTML5. This includes a bunch of stuff, like <video>, <audio> and &#6
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by necubi 16y ago
No, this problem is different, and has a different solution. In your problem it makes sense to switch when given the choice, whereas in this one it does not. With the three doors you're given additional information once you choose a door, w

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